Category Archives: Grants

The Henry Beston Society and Mooncusser Films are proud to announce that the video trailer for the Beston Society’s documentary film project, Henry Beston’s Cape Cod, has been completed. Click here to watch the video. The video was screened this past week to enthusiastic responses from audiences at my lectures at the Thoreau Society’s 72 [...]

During his time on the Outer Beach, Henry Beston often ventured out into stormy weather to find out what nature truly had to offer. During sunny weather, the beach offered glorious splendor. When the nor’easters came calling, well, that could leave a person truly in awe of nature’s power. So in order to capture that [...]

The Henry Beston Society is pleased to announce that it has received a grant of $750 from the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, to be used toward the production of its documentary film project about how Henry Beston’s The Outermost House was an inspiration for the Cape Cod National Seashore. The grant was presented to [...]

The Henry Beston Society was able to acquire several artifacts from Henry Beston’s Outermost House earlier today. Thanks to a generous contribution from Glenn Mott, these items are now in possession of the Society: Henry Beston’s walking stick, his backpack frame and binoculars, his Outermost House coffee mug and a first edition copy of his [...]

The Henry Beston Society is offering lecture presentations about the influence of Henry Beston and his book, The Outermost House, on the establishment of the Cape Cod National Seashore, to libraries, schools, historical societies, other educational institutions, and non-profit groups and organizations on Cape Cod. The programs are free of charge, although donations are greatly [...]

This morning I brought my Beston Society media presentation, Henry Beston’s Cape Cod: Inspiration for the Cape Cod National Seashore, to Chatham High School. Elaine Aschettino called me in to give the talk to her junior honors English class, which is reading The Outermost House this semester. The class was quite receptive to the program, which [...]

Much like the Cape Cod Times and WCAI have done in their collaboration of coverage on the 50th anniversary of the Cape Cod National Seashore this week, we here at the Henry Beston Society have put together our own collection of online offerings past and present. The Beston Society is focusing on how Henry Beston’s book, [...]

Earlier this week, Beston biographer Dr. Daniel Payne and I received this note of thanks from Robert McCormack of the Cape Cod National Seashore, following our program, Beston’s Outermost House: Words That Inspired a National Seashore, on July 26 at the Salt Pond Visitors Center in Eastham. The event was part of the park’s Tuesday [...]

The filming for the Henry Beston Society’s documentary film project received a quality boost this past week, when Harvard University’s Jonathan Moore stopped by the nonprofit’s North Eastham office for an interview. Moore’s resume is an impressive one indeed, but it was his years as U.S. Senator Leverett Saltonstall’s legislative assistant that he was detailing [...]

The Beston Society/Mooncusser Films team went out to Eastham to shoot more documentary film footage last week, which included sit-down interviews with author Joan Anderson (A Year by the Sea, among many others) and Cape Cod National Seashore Historian Bill Burke. Anderson told me that Henry Beston and The Outermost House influenced her deeply, calling [...]

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Don Wilding

Don Wilding is the executive director and co-founder of the Henry Beston Society, a non-profit organization promoting the works and philosophies of the author of "The Outermost House." A veteran of 28 years of working for newspapers in ... Read Full